Jest Contract Job Trends in the North East

Jest
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Jest skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 39 31
Rank change year-on-year -7 -8 +31
Contract jobs citing Jest 5 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 1.31% 0.67% 0.40%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.10% 2.44% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £335 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £350 £450
Median % change year-on-year +71.43% -22.22% -2.70%
75th Percentile - £365 £475
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £450 £450 £489
% change year-on-year - -7.98% -18.50%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North East

Jest falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 82 82 55
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 21.41% 27.42% 21.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 46 39
10th Percentile £376 £335 £351
25th Percentile £406 £359 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £470 £540
Median % change year-on-year +1.06% -12.96% -1.82%
75th Percentile £575 £585 £623
90th Percentile £600 £650 £720
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 2
10th Percentile £46.53 £34.37 -
25th Percentile £49.56 - -
Median hourly rate £53.75 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +16.39% - -5.76%
75th Percentile £55.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £52.20
% change year-on-year -2.40% +19.74% -19.70%

Jest
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Jest relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Jest job vacancy trend in the North East

Jest
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Jest.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Jest

Jest
Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Jest within the North East region over the 6 months to 15 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Tyne and Wear -6 5 £600 +71.43% 4
Jest
England

Jest
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) Azure
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (40.00%) GitHub
3 2 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (40.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) NoSQL
1 3 (60.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Mocha
2 2 (40.00%) Git
2 2 (40.00%) GitLab
General
1 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (60.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 3 (60.00%) Senior
2 3 (60.00%) Senior Developer
2 3 (60.00%) Senior Front-End Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Backend Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Node.js Developer
4 1 (20.00%) HTML CSS Developer
4 1 (20.00%) HTML Developer
4 1 (20.00%) JavaScript Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Senior JavaScript Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Senior Open Source Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) Node.js
2 3 (60.00%) CSS
2 3 (60.00%) HTML
3 2 (40.00%) Express.js
3 2 (40.00%) GraphQL
3 2 (40.00%) React
3 2 (40.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (40.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Microservices
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 3 (60.00%) Front End Development
3 3 (60.00%) Open Source
4 2 (40.00%) API Development
4 2 (40.00%) BDD
4 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (40.00%) Coaching
4 2 (40.00%) Code Quality
4 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (40.00%) DevOps
4 2 (40.00%) End-to-End Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Knowledge Transfer
4 2 (40.00%) Line Management
4 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
4 2 (40.00%) Observability
4 2 (40.00%) Progressive Enhancement
4 2 (40.00%) Secure Coding
4 2 (40.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (40.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Grafana
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes